For anyone who hasn’t watched The Wire, the number one rule, “Don’t talk in the car, on the phone or on anything that ain’t ours, and don’t say shit to anybody who ain’t us.” Had the show been made after smart phones became ubiquitous, I’m sure the same would be applied to texting and the cloud.
I watched the doc series Heist on Netflix as well, and if any of those guys had followed this basic rule, they probably wouldn’t have been caught. I’m not even a criminal and I know to at least use only burner phones, fake accounts using untraceable proxies and VPNs.